Today, the battle between Indie developers and G2A’s attempt at credibility raged on as the grey-market seller updated their recent statement about the legality and ethicality of their game sales. These sales see developers lose out on money, hitting Indie developers hardest.
It read:
The statement seems to be a rather crass way of telling Indie developers that they are to blame for the situation. G2A claims developers should allow it to happen despite a mountain of evidence that shows the practice of this by sellers on the platform to be fraudulent, resulting in many developers seeing no money at all after purchases are made in cheaper regions, before being sold via Steam Gifts and then having their payment canceled. It’s also against the Steam Terms of Service but continues to happen
We received lots of feedback – both positive and negative. Developers themselves have offered some ideas and suggestions regarding the ways we can solve the issues they have with our platform. We need some time to put it all together. We’ll get back to you in the next couple of days with a solution.
Of all the negative comments, the following sentence was the most common:
“G2A admits they’re the problem because if not them, someone else would do it anyways”
Some developers cannot accept the fact that people have full rights to resell the things they own. It’s a problem for those developers, but not for us or anyone else. And certainly not for gamers who have access to cheaper products, games included, thanks to marketplaces such as G2A.
What we are saying is: “It’s a good thing that people can re-sell keys and, with or without G2A, they will continue to do so.”
The original statement was in response to being called out for taking out Sponsored Adverts on Google that were impossible to turn off by Indie Developer of downhill bike racer Descenders, Mike Rose, who tweeted that he’d rather see the game get pirated than see money reach G2A’s pockets. A considerable number of Indie Developers have since joined him, and a petition has been set up on Change.org to have Indie Games removed from the platform.
The entire saga is rather damning for G2A, and you can follow the latest below as Mike continues to battle the injustice of G2A.
You can purchase Descenders (legitimately) from Steam. With the Steam Summer Sale, it’s currently $17.49. You can also avoid illegitimate key sellers by only using authorized key sellers, where IsThereAnyDeal.com can help.
G2A updated their statement this morning! They have:
– Not denied (admitted?) they are the problem
– Said developers need to get over it, and be OK with key reselling.
Once again, they’ve completely dodged the actual issues and just spouted some bullshit. Let me explain why! pic.twitter.com/0XrhMJPN4B
— Mike Rose (@RaveofRavendale) July 8, 2019
